Basketball Quotes - Page 23

• I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

  LeBron James

  Men, Superhero, Call Me

  "LeBron James is next" by Tom Friend, www.espn.com. December 23, 2002.

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• I'm ready to accept the challenge. I'm coming home.

  LeBron James

  Home, Challenges, Accepting

  "LeBron James leaves Miami Heat to rejoin Cleveland Cavaliers" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2014.

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• They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.

  Magic Johnson

  Killing, They Said, Kill Me

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• Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

  Yao Ming

  America, Culture, Language

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

  Red Auerbach

  Player, Care, Court

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• When I had troubles, I'd go out - with basketball, you can do it by yourself, too. So you'd go out and shoot, and you'd fantasize.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Trouble, Can Do, You Can Do It

  "Duke of the Court". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everybody else.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Team, Heart, Leader

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Winning, Imagination, Deals

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievemnt Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Team, People

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• It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

  Rick Pitino

  Player, Games, Coaching

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• Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Yield, Effort, Obstacles

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”

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• Let your life be your argument.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Argument, Life Is

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• Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

  Pat Summitt

  Winning, Games, Defense

  Pat Head Summitt (1998). “Reach for the Summit: The Definite Dozen System for Succeeding at Whatever You Do”, Broadway

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• If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

  Elgin Baylor

  Greatness, Jordan, Looks

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• Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Straight Up, Ifs

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• Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try to look it up. I don't know who made it, all I know is it was put in my head that two plus two is four. So certain things happen. Why does it rain? Why am I so sexy? I don't know.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Sexy, Rain, Two

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• They shot the ball well early. What comes out of the microwave hot doesn't always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Morning, Hot, Balls

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• Basketball is basketball.

  Oscar Robertson

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• I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.

  LeBron James

  Motivational, Nba, Games

  The InsideHoops Interview, www.insidehoops.com. June 14, 2003.

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• If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.

  John C. Maxwell

  Temper, Persons, Ifs

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• We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.

  Jim Valvano

  Thinking, Numbers, Should Have

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• I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.

  Frank Layden

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

  Oscar Robertson

  Player, Ifs, Famous Basketball

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• The only important statistic is the final score.

  Bill Russell

  Nba, Important, Finals

  "At 75, Russell still casts long shadow over All-Star circus" by Mark Woods, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2009.

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• My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

  Rebecca Lobo

  Inspirational, Stars, Play

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